Welcome to the Sandgate Parish Plan & Design Statement website

Local people are best placed to identify and describe local character - and a Parish Plan & Design Statement should capture that input and format it into a well structured assessment of the character of the village and its setting. A Design Statement cannot change existing policies, but it can help the planners to influence the character of new developments in the village. 

Our Design Statement will tell people how to make new development fit into the existing character of our village - it will be given to people who are preparing designs. It will be used by development control planners in the local authority when they give advice to prospective developers. It will also be used when council officers make recommendations to the planning committee on planning applications. 

To be influential our Design Statement must be approved by the planning authority as a Supplementary Planning Document in the Local Development Framework.

Useful Design Statement links.